This is about my daily life here in Baghdad, Iraq as an soldier of the United States Army. My views do not reflect that of the US Military or US Government

Friday, June 17, 2005

Not Going Anywhere For Awhile?

We still have not left yet. It is starting to get even warmer now. It hits about 120 degrees now, and the damn generator keeps going out and in a manner for a few seconds it instantly gets hot in our tent and the AC is really really slow at cooling the place down. It's not like the generator goes out for an hour or so. It keeps failing and start every few minutes. One minute it will be on, then the next it will be off. It's kind of amusing actually, and people jokingly yell in celebration when they see the temperature on the AC reading go up, and yell "Noooo!" when the temperature goes up instead of down.

One thing I can't wait to do when I get home is to play Paintball. It is one game I really like to play. I started playing it about 2 years ago. However, it's extremely irritating to see 14 and 15 year olds show up at the drop in games with 1000+ dollar paintball guns and I'm toting a paintball gun worth 200-300 dollars.

In our spare time, there isn't much to do except goto the MWR to use the Internet or watch movies on our portable dvd players or laptops.